Questions tagged [udisks]
udisks provides a daemon that implements interfaces that can be used to enumerate and perform operations on storage devices and a cli tool - udisksctl, to query and use the daemon.
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Headless disk-mount with user permissions
There is a headless machine, with Debian as its OS: $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 11 \n \l $ uname -a Linux mymachine 6.1.99 #33 SMP Tue Jan 21 11:32:39 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux What I wish to ...
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A way to disable udisks "housekeeping" short of disabling udisks?
I have a USB hard drive connected to Raspberry Pi OS that seemingly never spins down. It turns out that udisks2.service is performing regular "housekeeping" and failing: Sep 05 02:32:13 rpi ...
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Arch Linux - Unable to mount Windows NTFS Partition using GUI
My PC is running a dual-boot setup. I have two NVMe Drives, running Windows 10 and Arch Linux respectively. I first installed Windows, then Arch. My bootloader is GRUB and is able to boot to both OSs. ...
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Replicating 'udisks power-off' behavior (without udisks)
udisks exists for regular users, root must (and is) able to live without it, I need help figuring out how. The goal is to do exactly what udisks power-off /dev/sdX does without udisks. hdparm is out ...
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How to change default automount USB path to /mnt/sdXX?
Default mount path with udisks2, udiskie is /media/XXXXX On some distributions /media/user/XXXXXX How to change automount path for USB drives to a shorter /mnt/sdb1 /mnt/sdc2 etc. With udisks2, ...
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How to modify/extend USB device access permissions in Debian?
I have a PC with Debian 10. I need the USB drives to have broader permissions than those given by default by the system. I will give an example: with the user "john" being authenticated, ...
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Why is NTFS has a dirty mark and why can't NTFS3 mount dirty NTFS partitions?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS#Unable_to_mount_with_ntfs3_with_partition_marked_dirty When a NTFS partition is marked dirty, NTFS3 cannot mount this on linux But NTFS-3G (and also Windows) can ...
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btrfs mount with compress fails with udisksctl but succeeds with mount?
$ sudo mkfs.btrfs -fL borgbackups /dev/vgxubuntu/borgbackups $ udisksctl mount -o compress=ztsd:15 -b /dev/mapper/vgxubuntu-borgbackups Error mounting /dev/dm-3: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2....
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